Originally published in 2018 in French by Gallimard Jeunesse, France.
Contents
Thales -- Pythagoras -- Aristotle -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Zhang Heng -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- Brahmagupta -- Avicenna -- Alhazen -- Roger Bacon -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Kepler -- Isaac Newton -- William Harvey -- Rene Descartes -- Antoine Lavoisier -- Mary Anning -- Michael Faraday -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Charles Darwin -- Gregor Mendel -- Louis Pasteur -- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev -- Ada Lovelace -- David Hilbert -- Marie Curie -- Ernest Rutherford -- Albert Einstein -- Niels Bohr -- Alfred Wegener -- Alan Turing -- Rosalind Franlin -- HGP and the Human Genome -- Vera Rubin -- Francoise Barre-Sinoussi -- Tim Berners-Lee -- Stephen Hawking -- Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Summary
Each '40 Inspiring Icons' title introduces readers to a fascinating non-fiction subject through its 40 most famous people or groups. In this book, 40 of the most inquiring minds in science are waiting to showcase their big ideas. Find out how these scientists spent their lives asking questions and making leaps and bounds in the world of science and technology. Perfect for the budding scientist.